“America has been lulled to sleep by the mind-boggling elongation of a war 7,000 miles away,” noted Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D – OH), “the plain fact is we are not exiting Afghanistan, despite the appearances which the White House is trying to create.”

With polls all showing overwhelming opposition among US voters to continuing the war, the extension could have been hugely controversial. Yet so far, it hasn’t even registered to the public at large as an extension, and with both major party candidates equally hawkish on Afghanistan it is unlikely there is going to be a major push by either to be frank with them.

If the Constitution requires confirmation by the legislative branch, then Obama's advisers will simply call the agreement by some other name, and carry on, as in "It's not torture, it's enhanced interrogation." Or as in the Libyan overthrow of Gaddafi, it's not war, it's "less-than-war."

The lawlessness and comprehensive untruthfulness (ie lying) have by this time become obvious. Obama made great efforts to maintain troops and bases in Iraq. When he couldn't get Maliki to agree to immunity for US troops, he had to pull them out (some of them anyway). Whereupon he stood up and said "See, I've gotten us out of Iraq." He's a brazen liar, just like Bush and so many others before him, and no one should be buying it anymore.